摘要:
A signal processor for compenstaing for optical fibre chromatic dispersion comprising encoding means (5) for encoding a source signal (2) received from a data source (6), splitting means (8) to separate the encoded signal (7) from the encoding means (5) into an in-phase component (10) and an in-quadrature component (11), a first filter means (12) adapted to receive the in-phase component (10) and a second filter means (13) adapted to receive the in-quadrature component (11), the first filter means (12) and second filter means (13) being adapted to filter the in-phase and in-quadrature components respectively. The outputs (14, 15) from the filter means form the input to the optical modulator means (3).
摘要:
An equalizer (60) processes, in the electrical domain, a signal obtained from a path of an optical transmission system. The equalizer comprises N cascaded stages (where N≧1). At least one of the stages comprises a cascade of a linear equalization element (61) and a non-linear equalization element (62). The equalizer (60) is able to compensate for both linear impairments, such as dispersion, and non-linear impairments. The cascaded linear and non-linear elements can simulate the effect of signal propagation through a fiber which has the opposite propagation parameters (e.g. attenuation, dispersion, non-linearity) to those of the propagation path experienced by a signal in the transmission system. The non-linear equalization element (62) can be a non-linear phase rotator which rotates phase of an input signal proportional to the squared modulus of the input signal amplitude. The linear equalization element (61) can comprise a digital filter, such as an Infinite Impulse Response (HR) filter or a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter.
摘要:
A method of transmitting communications traffic, the method comprising steps of receiving a sequence of communications traffic bits; and mapping the sequence of communications traffic bits onto a respective one of a plurality of transmission symbols for transmission during a symbol time. Each transmission symbol is identified by a respective first symbol identifier indicative of a respective one or more of a plurality, M, of wavelengths for a transmission signal and a respective second symbol identifier indicative of a respective one or more of a plurality, N, of optical fibres on which to transmit the transmission signal.
摘要:
A method of detecting a signal in an optical receiver is described. The method includes converting a received optical signal to a digital electrical signal comprising a plurality of samples, applying a predetermined phase rotation to said samples to obtain amplitude and phase components of phase range adjusted sample values, and performing a first detection process based on the amplitude and phase components of the phase range adjusted sample values.
摘要:
A method (10) of non-linear propagation impairment equalization, the method comprising the steps of: a. receiving (12) communications traffic carried by an optical communications signal transmitted over an optical communications link; b. generating (14) a time dependent filter representation of a nonlinear time-variant impulse response of the inverse of the optical communications link; and c. applying (16) the time dependent filter representation to the received communications traffic to form non-linear propagation impairment equalized communications traffic. An optical communications link nonlinear propagation impairment equalizer and optical communications signal receiver apparatus are also provided.